June 14. Whenever I do something new on the piano – like now the two and a half octaves, two ledger lines above and below – it seems to me as if it were humanly impossible, and only because I know that there are people who can do it, I have hope that I will also be able to do it someday. Yet these steps are tiny. Many people I see on the street can do it, and the utmost human possibilities are light years away from what I am doing right now.